Articles | Volume 19, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-14917-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-14917-2019
Research article
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10 Dec 2019
Research article |  | 10 Dec 2019

The impact of fluctuations and correlations in droplet growth by collision–coalescence revisited – Part 2: Observational evidence of gel formation in warm clouds

Lester Alfonso, Graciela B. Raga, and Darrel Baumgardner

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The aim of this paper is to find some observational evidence of gel formation in clouds, by analyzing the distribution of the largest droplet at an early stage of cloud formation, and to show that the mass of the gel (lucky droplet) is a mixture of Gaussian and Gumbel distributions. The results obtained may help advance the understanding of precipitation formation and are a novel application of the theory of critical phenomena in cloud physics.
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